he sons and daughters of some of us
to eke out a bare existence as the best reward of earnest effort and
sterling worth, and at the same time rewards these other men with
$36,000,000 for one day's labor? Is this the freedom which our fathers
and our sons died on many a bloody, hard-fought field to preserve? I am
conscious of a haunting fear that these men and women may not always be
patient, may not always be put off with skilled evasion or slippery
subterfuge, and for one brief moment I see visions of a marching people,
bearing aloft grisly heads on gory poles, and hear above the low,
bestial murmur of the mob the cry for bread and for revenge.

And then I remember that this is _America_, not France; that our laws
are strong--if but the people are aroused to see them obeyed; that our
prisons are ample, even though they be for the present filled with petty
rascals who can do but little harm though turned loose to make room for
the real scoundrels who are undermining the foundations of our
Republic.

FOOTNOTES:

[3] It must be remembered that the Amalgamated Company never owned all the
capital stock of the Anaconda, but, on the contrary, only a few shares over
600,000, which represented the ownership of the Haggin-Tevis-Daly people,
and which they had turned in for a lump sum before the market price had
advanced. The control of the Parrott, owned by the Amalgamated Company, was
purchased for a lump amount from Franklin Farrell and his associates for
the sum of $4,000,000-odd, not $12,190,000. The Colorado Smelting and
Mining Company was also purchased in a lumped batch of Senator Wolcott, not
at $7,000,000, but for $2,000,000-odd, while the tremendous advance in the
price of Anaconda in the market from 30 to 70 was due to the operations of
Messrs. Rogers and Rockefeller for their private account, out of which they
made a large additional profit.

There can be no possibility of mistake or successful misrepresentation of
these figures: first, because the Anaconda figures are known not only to
Mr. Rogers, William Rockefeller, and myself, but to J. B. Haggin, and to
the estates of Tevis and Marcus Daly; the Colorado figures, to associates
of Senator Wolcott and to his estate; and the Parrott figures, to Mr.
Farrell who received the money, and to a large number of those to whom he
had to account; and, further, these figures will all be demonstrated in
open court in suits outside of any with which I have to do, which are no